Medicare, the federal health-insurance program for America’s elderly, plays a major and highly controversial role in our health-care system. To many Americans it is a blessing. Others view it as...
It seems clear that change is coming to the U.S. healthcare system, but the idea of doing away with the employer-based insurance system - which has become increasingly unsustainable for businesses...
The Washington Post reports that health "credit reports" have been compiled on 200 million Americans. Ingenix and Milliman are 2 companies that make billions of dollars developing profiles based on...
Intent on providing universal coverage, the Democrats' proposals tend to rely on subsidies and other government involvement. The Republican plans, which treat health insurance more as a consumer...
It all happened so quietly and so quickly. And, then there was a front page New York Times column declaring (without fanfare) “Many Retirees May Lose Benefits From Employers.� Most friends I...
This is an interesting and academic study from Harvard which shows that the introduction of Medicare might have had a substantially greater impact on the cost of health insurance than previously...
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